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The East Slavs are the most populous subgroup of the Slavs. [3] They speak the East Slavic languages, [4] and formed the majority of the population of the medieval state Kievan Rus', which they claim as their cultural ancestor. [5] [6] Today Belarusians, Russians and Ukrainians are the existent East Slavic nations.
Antes: common ancestors of the East Slavs and most Eastern South Slavs. Also contributed to the West Slavs; Veneti: common ancestors of the West Slavs. Also contributed to the Western South Slavs and the East Slavs; Sclaveni: ancestors of the Western South Slavs. Their name was adopted by the Byzantines in the 600s as a catch-all for all Balkan ...
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, [1] [2] and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the ...
Battle between the Slavs and the Scythians — painting by Viktor Vasnetsov (1881). The early Slavs were speakers of Indo-European dialects [1] who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th centuries AD) in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe and established the foundations for the Slavic nations through the Slavic states of the Early ...
The prevailing view on the Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps is based mostly on evidence deduced from archeological remains (many of which have been discovered due to the extensive highway constructions in post-1991 Slovenia), [3] ethnographic traces (patterns of rural settlement and land cultivation), as well as on the ascertainments of historical linguistics (including toponymy).
East Slavic history (4 C, 5 P) G. ... West Slavic history (5 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Slavic history" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
East Slavic tribes (9 C, 16 P) H. History of the Rus' people (3 C, 10 P) Σ. East Slavic history stubs (52 P) Pages in category "East Slavic history"
East Slavic tribes (9 C, 16 P) S. South Slavic tribes (3 C, 9 P) W. ... The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region; O. Old Russians;